Auto-Immune & Hair Loss – Trichologist Brisbane
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Recommended reading – Wheat Belly By William Davis, MD. Some extracts from the book, Autoimmunity and wheat.
Autoimmunity occurs when your own immune system is no longer able to distinguish friend from foe. It’s as weird as a mother not recognizing her children, sometimes as tragic as friendly fire.
Depending on which tissues in which organs are attacked, the misdirected immune attack of autoimmunity can express itself in many ways such as forms of Alopecia, autoimmune hepatitis (liver tissue), primary biliary cirrhosis (bile ducts), type 1 diabetes (pancreatic beta cells), uveitis (iris of the eye), skin (psoriasis), platelets (autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura), muscles (polymyositis), thyroid (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Grave’s disease), or just about any other organ or tissue.
Wheat consumption has now been confidently identified as both the initiating process in autoimmunity, as well as a perpetuating factor.
Autoimmunity is just one way that tells us that this “food” was never appropriate for human consumption in the first place. First consumed in desperation 10,000 years ago, after not consuming grains for the preceding 2.5 million years, then altered by the efforts of geneticists and agribusiness, increased wheat consumption accounts for the increasing landscape of multiple autoimmune conditions, especially type 1 diabetes in children (and, now, adults), Hashimoto’s, and inflammatory bowel diseases.
So what is it about modern wheat that can cause such misguided immune responses? There are several reasons:
- Increased intestinal permeability
- Gliadin peptide toxicity
- Wheat germ agglutinin
- Molecular mimicry
- Dysbiosis
Not one of these phenomena leading to autoimmunity require the presence of celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. The abnormal intestinal permeability induced by gliadin, for instance, develops in 80-90% of people; the toxic effects of wheat germ agglutinin can affect everybody.
Anyone diagnosed with an autoimmune condition should avoid wheat, as well as its nearly genetically identical brethren, rye and barley (identical gliadin and wheat germ agglutinin sequences), as well as corn (some overlap of corn zein with gliadin) and rice (identical wheat germ agglutinin).
Also, vitamin D restoration (e.g., achieve a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level of 60-70 ng/ml or 150-180 nmol/L), omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, and correction of disrupted bowel flora (probiotics, naturally fermented foods, prebiotics) are all crucial steps in maximizing your hopes of reversing your autoimmune condition. [1]
Check out Wheat Belly and other associated and interesting books by following this link… http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/books/
Contact Absolique Hair Health Clinic Trichologist Carolyn Evans for more information on Auto-Immune & Hair Loss plus auto-immune scalp conditions as Auto-Immune & Hair Loss is on the rise and is now as common as diffuse hair loss compared to being a rare condition 18 years ago when Carolyn started practising Trichology. Call reception on 07 3229 3242 or email info@absolique.com.au
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[1] http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2013/12/autoimmunity-and-wheat/ By Dr. Davis | December 13, 2013
Auto-Immune & Hair Loss – Trichologist Brisbane